Learn how to check for ticks on yourself, kids and pets after outdoor activities, where ticks commonly hide, and what to do if you find one.

For decades, Lyme disease testing has had the same fundamental limitation: it doesn't look for the bacteria itself. Standard tests measure antibodies — your immune system's response to infection —...

The honest answer to the question everyone asks after pulling a tick off, including the part most articles skip.

After a tick bite, the instinct is usually to get rid of the tick itself as fast as possible – and understandably so – but that leaves an open question:...

Tick season lands at exactly the time of year we most want to be outside – and this year, it arrived early and hit hard. According to CDC surveillance data,...

A tick bite that causes a red meat allergy sounds like something out of a medical thriller — but it's real, it's spreading, and it's now showing up in states...

Heading outdoors this summer? Use this practical checklist to prepare for tick exposure, check yourself and your family afterward, and know what to do if you find a tick.

In Utah's Wasatch Mountains right now, moose are dying in a way that's hard to imagine. Not from predators, not from disease in the traditional sense — but from ticks....

If you live in Florida and search for information about tick-borne illness in your state, you'll run into something unusual: a near-total absence of publicly available data. Lyme disease is...

Most people know that tick bites can cause Lyme disease. Fewer know that a single tick bite can permanently change what you're able to eat — potentially for the rest...

The CDC has issued a clear signal heading into tick season 2026: tick bite-related emergency room visits are at their highest rate in nearly 10 years. During the second week...

Your dog is one of the best early warning systems you have for tick activity around your home. They walk through the same grass, brush, and wooded edges where ticks...